diff --git a/training/deepspeech_training/VERSION b/training/deepspeech_training/VERSION
index 7a3723a0..5030827f 100644
--- a/training/deepspeech_training/VERSION
+++ b/training/deepspeech_training/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.9.0-alpha.7
+0.9.0-alpha.8